In 2011, he started to record how many homeless people who attended his practice died. During 2017, he recorded 17 deaths among the 1,100 patients who sought treatment, more than twice the death rate in Brighton as a whole. Although a lot of guidance on commissioning primary healthcare for homeless people has been issued since the 1990s, access varies greatly from region to region. Homeless patients often arrive at A&E with a combination of physical and mental health and addiction problems, and therefore spend much longer in hospital than the average patient. The small charity, currently funded through private grants, has also created gold standard commissioning guidelines for homeless care.

Source: The Guardian May 23, 2018 06:22 UTC